Rosalina Diaz is a full-time Anthropology Associate Professor at Medgar Evers College, CUNY. Her research interests lie in gender, identity & power in Taino society; historical archaeology of the Caribbean; ethnobotany of the Caribbean; and education inequality of Latinx and Caribbean populations in the U.S. Prior to joining Medgar Evers College, she earned a PhD in Urban Education with concentrations in anthropology, archaeology and gender studies from The CUNY Graduate Center, and held adjunct faculty positions at Hunter, City College and Borough of Manhattan Community College, as well as The New School and Boricua College. She served as Director of the MEC Center for Teaching & Learning Excellence from 2013 to 2016 and founded the Latinx heritage Month Celebration and the Association of Latinx Studies at MEC in 2007. In addition to her teaching responsibilities at MEC, she currently serves as Mentor for the TRTC program at Columbia University and works with the University of Puerto Rico on several projects focusing on Environmental Resilience of Island Communities in the Anthropocene.